Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are five notes, written by the editors of the Review, several of which are of more than passing interest to students of law. The first concerns the recent case of MacAllen v. Massachusetts. The decision of this case by the United States Supreme Court is of great importance to the taxing systems of the states; the note gives a detailed analysis of the decision...
...That funds hitherto concentrated in the Stockmarket would go into more legitimate fields (some realtors appeared to think that the public was going to build houses with the money it had lost in the market). Certainly there was much talk of a revival of interest in bonds, which have recently been spurned even by widows and orphans...
...consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master Atterbury made the first when he captured a valuable pawn, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia. His Pennroad Corp. bought for $50.000,000 from Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen. The sale also means that the Taplins have given up their aspirations for a Great Lakes-Atlantic seaboard...
...game, although it is not one of Harvard's major battles, has attracted more than passing interest, and it is expected that nearly a capacity crowd of 57,000 will be in the stands at the time of the opening kickoff, 2 o'clock. It is the reported strength of the well-balanced Holy Cross outfit that is arousing all this interest and causing the traffic congestion comparable to that on the day of a Yale game...
...advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...